date:Feb 26, 2020
For decades, Indias Jampui Hills have been known as the Orange Bowl. But a changing climate has led farmers on a search for sustainable agriculture.
Hillol Datta, travelled for two days from Kolkata to Jampui Hills to see its fruit-laden orange orchards. However, after driving for several hours, all the young traveller saw were bald patches along the hill slopes and scattered rows of areca (nut) palm trees.
This is disappointing. I had heard so much about the orange orchards of Jampui. Even my